Where?
אֵיפֹהStrong’s H0375ephoh (e-phoh)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ephoh is the Hebrew word usually translated “where”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.”
Meaning
- Where?
- What kind?
How it's translated
- where 9
- and where 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Judges 1
- Ruth 1
- 1 Samuel 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 8:18Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.
- Ruth 2:19And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man’s name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.
- 1 Samuel 19:22Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
- 2 Samuel 9:4And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.
- Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
- Job 38:4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Hebrew dictionary
אֵיפֹה ephoh · where?
1) where? 2) what kind?
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “where” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHERE, adverb
- At which place or places.“In all places where I record my name, I will come to thee and I will bless thee” Exodus 20:24
- At or in what place.“Adam, where art thou?” Genesis 3:9
- At the place in which.
- Whither; to what place, or from what place. where are you going? where are you from? [These uses of where are common, and the first cannot be condemned as vulgar.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.